Title: Apple’s next iPhones may cut corners on memory due to price squeeze Post by: HCK on May 06, 2017, 04:05:12 pm Apple’s next iPhones may cut corners on memory due to price squeeze
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Apple could cut the capacity of DRAM in its upcoming anniversary iPhones with the rising prices of storage and memory components hitting its profit margins.</p><p>Apple acknowledged the rising DRAM and NAND prices during its second-quarter earnings call Tuesday (http://www.macworld.com/article/3193918/apple-phone/6-key-takeaways-from-apples-q2-2017-earnings-call.html). The company expects the pricing pressure to continue in the near term.</p><p>Those prices, in turn, could impact the memory capacity of the next iPhone. Trendforce, which tracks SSD and DRAM pricing, predicted the iPhone 8 (http://www.macworld.com/article/3126154/hardware/iphone-8-rumors.html) will be capped at 3GB of DRAM.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3194213/mobile/apples-next-iphones-may-cut-corners-on-memory-due-to-price-squeeze.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Apple’s next iPhones may cut corners on memory due to price squeeze (http://www.macworld.com/article/3194213/mobile/apples-next-iphones-may-cut-corners-on-memory-due-to-price-squeeze.html#tk.rss_all) |